MEA Official Reviews Thread (Polarized 9.5-5.0 7.6av)

I'm still excited. Ya I'm disappointed it is scoring as low as it is in places and that it is getting a ton of hate but I'm not gonna let it bring me down! Plus I feel like if they can get all hands on deck and get those patches rolling out to fix those bugs they will still have a solid Mass Effect game.

Reviews seem mixed, from really good ranges to really bad.


All I can say is...better luck next time? Hopefully Bioware takes this as a challenge and just comes back harder.
Really all I can say.

The funny thing is they would just find something else to bitch and rage and be toxic and vile about like a broken record until any person who was ever excited about anything is just as miserable and full of hate as they are. They would find the tiniest things and make them into huge issues and NEVER stop mentioning it. Nothing is ever going to be perfect so the logic that "if the game didn't have flaws they would have nothing to say" just doesn't add up. I have only played the 10 hour trial so sure maybe I am not seeing the entire picture yet but to me the game is definitely not "admitably a mess". I can't wait to play more.

Getting tired of all these TW3 comments popping up.
CD PROJEKT RED make a different type of games, which I personally don't like that much and find utterly inferior to BioWare's Mass Effect and Dragon Age series. That does not make said series better than The Witcher. If you like CDPR's approach better, than good, I hope their next game blows your mind. But BioWare should NOT try to be like them.

ME 1 wasn't subpar to me. What it did, story and immersion, it did extremely well. ME3 was good overall, marred by the ending and too much railroading of Shepard's emotions (the kid thing pissed me off.) ME2, while great in many ways, was super-stupid in terms of narrative choice. (How about I just kill Miranda and Jacob once I find out they're Cerberus and take the shuttle where I choose?)

All 3 were good games.

As for ME:A, I still expect to enjoy it. While it has issues, from what I saw in Early Access, it is not a 6 game, that's an over-reaction to the negative after reviewers got burned by missing ME3's ending problem.

Also there are lots of games I love that other people don't. If you find yourself loving ME:A, that's great. Don't let other people ruin it for you. Personally, I wanted to keep playing when my trial ended, and that's the bottom line "I want to play more." I found the 6/10 review ridiculous for that reason: "Despite all this I still want to play."

Ok, then, if after 60 hours you still want to play, it's a good game, whatever its problems.

In general, yes. In terms of open world/side quest ratio? I disagree. They should try to go more towards narrative quests and less about fetch quests, which doesn't seem Andromeda did well, although it improved on DAI.
But that's just about Bioware, but all open world RPGs. 

Definitely - after 6 hours of Fallout 4 I did not want to play another minute, never mind 60 hours! If you still want to play a game that has big technical problems after 60 hours, to me that says that the game must be pretty great to keep your interest all that time, in spite of the issues!

I noticed that the most negative reviews are coming from PS4 version of ME:A. On PS4 game performs awful due to Sony's mandate for all SP games to have 1080p resolutions. XBOne in other hand allowed 900p resolution, hence why ME:A performs decently there. While amazingly well for majority of PC users, as of trial version of the game.

Yet for some reason all of the biggest gaming media outlets decided to review ME:A on PS4, not on XBOX nor PC where ME franchise started.

Well looking at the trend with ME:A criticism, it is mostly exaggerated.




I dunno, am I the only person who is not expecting nor seeking for perfection from this game?

Here here, have an internet hug buddy. :dumb:
To be honest, although many issues are wayyy blown up by straight up malicious people, like animation glitches, even the most positive reviews do mention some technical issues. Still, I've never encountered a single bug on my rig, which is not particularly powerful and is already 1 1/2 years old. It's been stress tested, badly, by day 1 DAI and XCOM2 so maybe that helped. But rest assure it's going to be MUCH better than DAI at launch (since MEA has already been patched twice and such). Which was a bloody mess. Which somehow all the critics have conveniently glossed over. And if you don't push the settings to Ultra plus Omega on a potato build you are far less likely to encounter all those bugs mentioned in the review.

Writing though is another whole issue that I don't even know where to start. Ugh! I don't get why people like Mass Effect 1's critical story line writing more than 2 or 3's, like, at all. Same amount of cringe, less fun, took itself too seriously. And I love DA2 to bits and pieces and think it's the best among all 3 in the series. Yeah, especially with the whole lotta "choice doesn't matter shits still hit the fan" idea. I don't see people complain about the ending of The Last of Us yet you cannot change a thing. At one point you gotta choose between telling a story and letting the player make their own story, and unless the game has a plotline as forgettable as skyrim's the choices are always a facade. You are being told a story by the developers. It is in the end a very personal issue. One man's meat, another man's poison. If you find polarizing views on writing quality then it almost guarantees a hate it or love it or even both experience, more so than a one-sided applause. 

Anyhow stay focused on the game itself, specifically on how YOU feel about it, not on other people who tell you how to enjoy(or trash) the game. And remember that there are like minded people here on this forum and we can huddle for warmth together in this crazy storm. Cheers 

That's my main worry. I hope these review scores don't hurt the bottom line that much. As long as the game is profitable the suits at EA won't shelve the franchise. It would be a damn shame if it got shelved to since I think many of us are still invested in the lore, races, and overall history they have created with this franchise.